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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 50 |
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Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 50
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| Contents |
Title Page; Contents; List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables; Preface to the Second Edition; The Documents and Editorial Conventions; List of Abbreviations; Part One: James Irving's Career; 1: Introduction; 2: Early Career in the Liverpool Slave Trade; 3: Irving's Voyages in the Irving's Voyages in the; 4: Shipwreck and Enslavement; 5: Freedom and Return to England; 6: Conclusion; Part Two: James Irving's Correspondence, 1786-1791; Part Three: Journal of James Irving's Shipwreck and Enslavement, May 1789-October 1790; A 'Short Account' by James Irving II, June-October 1789; Notes |
| Summary |
As few accounts written by slave ship captains are known to have survived, the personal papers of James Irving are of tremendous interest and academic significance. Irving built a successful career in the slave trade of eighteenth-century Liverpool, first as a ships surgeon and then as a captain. Remarkably he was himself enslaved when his ship was wrecked off the coast of Morocco and he was captured by people described as wild Arabs and savages. This edition of forty letters and his journal reveals the reaction of the slaver to the experience of slavery, as well as throwing light on the |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Irving, James, 1759-1791.
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| SUBJECT |
Irving, James, 1759-1791 fast |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 18th century
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Slave traders -- England -- Liverpool -- Biography
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Slave traders -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 18th century
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Slave trade
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Slave traders
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England -- Liverpool
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781846314070 |
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1846314070 |
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